To my emotional brain cuckolding is about an order of magnitude worse than rape.
This could mean either:
a) I read about the psychological effects, and I concluded that they were one tenth as bad as I’d experience if I learned that my child isn’t mine.
or
b) Regardless of what either truly feels like, I feel the hypothetical of learning my child isn’t mine as an order of magnitude worse than the hypothetical of rape.
If you mean a), you’re probably extraordinarily sensitive, and when reading about a psychological impact on a normal person, you should multiply the estimate by a k>>1 constant to find out how it influences you. Being raped would probably break you completely.
If you mean b), it seems to me you’re not engaging with the topic, which is about the actual psychological damage, rather than our emotional estimates of it.
This could mean either:
a) I read about the psychological effects, and I concluded that they were one tenth as bad as I’d experience if I learned that my child isn’t mine.
or
b) Regardless of what either truly feels like, I feel the hypothetical of learning my child isn’t mine as an order of magnitude worse than the hypothetical of rape.
If you mean a), you’re probably extraordinarily sensitive, and when reading about a psychological impact on a normal person, you should multiply the estimate by a k>>1 constant to find out how it influences you. Being raped would probably break you completely.
If you mean b), it seems to me you’re not engaging with the topic, which is about the actual psychological damage, rather than our emotional estimates of it.